Chesney Landscape Planning

Goulburn Broken Landscape Planning

Landscape Plans for Goulburn Broken CMA - North East Goulburn Broken Zones - June 2003 The Landscape Plan for the Chesney Landscape Zone is published as a component of this document (above). Only sections relevant to the Chesney Landscape Zone are shown below. Chesney Landscape Plan
This Landscape Plan for the Chesney Landscape Zone - June 2003, was produced in collaboration between L. D. Ahern - Nature Scope Pty Ltd; K. W. Lowe - Biodiversity and Natural Resources Division, DSE; D. Robinson - Biodiveristy and Natural Resouces Division, DSE & Regional Services, DSE; K. Handley - Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority.

The Chesney Landscape zone is comprised mainly (68%) of the alluvial plains and terraces of the Victorian Riverina bioregion, occurring in association with the stream systems of the Broken, Boosey, Blind, Holland and Ryan Creeks, and the Broken River. These streams provide all drainage from the zone, in a predominantly north-west direction. Lake Mokoan, a major off-stream storage, is also located on the riverine plain of the Broken River. The riverine plains here, as in surrounding zones, have been very extensively cleared of native vegetation. Nevertheless, Chesney Landscape zone overall retains a high level of biodiversity significance, largely due to the attributes contained within the rises of the Northern Inland Slopes, which occupy the remaining 32% of the zone. Two main hill complexes can be identified: the Chesney Vale – Goorambat hills, which are sedimentary in the south and granitic in the north; and the Warby Range, a vast granitic plateau with broad colluvial slopes. Mokoan Swamp, prior to inundation, supported extensive wetland formation and plains grassy woodland / gilgai plain woodland / wetland mosaic. These and other wetland vegetation types (mostly dominated by River Red Gum and Grey Box) are today represented mainly by linear remnants along drainage lines (notably floodplain riparian woodland along Holland Creek and Broken River) and roadsides (such as gilgai plains woodland / wetland mosaic along Blind Creek), or by mature trees scattered across paddocks as individuals or in small clusters. Understorey, if present, is generally heavily grazed or weed infested, or both. In contrast to the plains vegetation, the various hill formations of the Northern Inland Slopes bioregion, although also extensively cleared, retain a number of substantial public land remnants, the most prominent of these being contained within Warby Range State Park and Mt Meg Flora and Fauna Reserve. These reserves retain much of the elevated granitic hills woodland, grassy dry forest, heathy dry forest and valley grassy forest which occurred prior to settlement, although the grassy woodland which clothed the colluvial slopes below has largely disappeared. The vegetation on these reserves, and in associated remnants on freehold and roadsides, still contains Blakely’s Red Gum, Red Stringybark, various box species, White Cypress-pine, Lightwood and Drooping She-oak, and continues to support a diverse biota, which includes Carpet Python, Turquoise Parrot, Swift Parrot, Regent Honeyeater, Northern Sandalwood, Yellow Hyacinth-orchid and Narrow Goodenia.

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